the core and fibre of mentality. On the other hand, they encourage cramming, and even put a premium upon knowledge gained in a short time which must soon perish. It is needless to state that the greatest portion of such knowledge does not become a permanent possession of the psychic life, and that it leaves no well-defined modification of the central nervous system. Such knowledge may not be wholly lost, but it cannot constitute a definite and permanent possession. So far as good memories are concerned, sustained interest in the classroom and ability to hold the attention are far more serviceable than examinations. In one point only are examinations of service. In most professions one's relative success depends upon securing a vast amount of information in a short time. Thus the lawyer works up his case in a thousand. details during a brief period. The minister is obliged to do likewise in the preparation of sermons and addresses. This mode of acquisition is valuable to the public speaker and to the orator. For this purpose examinations are a preparation, and the process of cramming may stand the professional man in good stead in later years. This training, however, is relatively insignificant when compared with the detrimental effects first mentioned, and the reasons for holding examinations are based chiefly upon other grounds than the one here given.

No one of the principles here stated is ade

quate in itself, but if observed as a whole it is believed that they will be found serviceable. Given brain-cells, numerous and large, a body adequate to their support, sufficient nutritive food, a good blood-supply, a mind educated to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel, a careful motor training; with these advantages let him who would remember become studiously attentive; ever on the lookout for what is new, let him take it from his environment and weld it to the old; let him keep hopeful and growing, with everwidening sympathies and interests, while his life. grows richer and unfolds in accordance with a purposeful plan, and his memories will take care of themselves, for they comprise the life, and in their summation are little else than character.

"Departed suns their trails of splendor drew
Across departed summers. Whispers came
From voices, long ago resolved again
Into the primeval Silence, and we twain,
Ghosts of our present self, yet still the same,
As in a spectral mirror wandered there." 17

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